| OBLIGATION | A duty (10) |
| NEGLIGENCE | Civil wrong (tort) in which a party suffers injury or harm from the breach of a duty of care (10) |
| ABDICATION | Failure to fulfil a duty (10) |
| FULFILMENT | Completion of a duty, hope, promise or threat (10) |
| EXONERATES | relieves of a duty |
| FIRSTWATCH | To start with, regard as a duty |
| OUTOFSIGHT | Has a duty, keeping so fit, mysteriously to be hidden (3,2,5) |
| PART | A chapter, component, element, episode, ingredient, portion or other fraction of a whole; a role played by an actor; a duty; or, a bodily organ (4) |
| ONUS | What could be a duty. a burden or a responsibility? (4) |
| ROTAL | Spoil a line of a duty list |
| RIFF | A bit of jazz as a duty? No thanks! (4) |
| DROUGHT | A medical attendant has a duty to ensure dryness |
| ROSTER | Take a rest or draw up a duty list (6) |
| LASTPOST | In the British Army, the second of two bugle calls signalling the end of the day, originally sounded after a duty officer's inspection of a camp (4,4) |
| EVASION | Avoidance of a duty, tax, question etc; or, a prevaricating excuse (7) |
| ROTUNDA | And German is in a duty list in a domed hall (7) |
| TARIFF | A duty to be paid on a class of imports or exports (6) |
| AYATOLLAH | Religious leader always given a duty a gosh! (9) |
| BOND | Chemical attraction; friendship; a tie or other affinity or connection; a duty; or, secret agent 007 (4) |
| AGEING | "For the ___ person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself": Carl Jung (6) |
